I’m guessing by the lack of posts here, I’m not the only one who struggled with this book. I’m only a little over 100 pages into it. While I find the overall story interesting so far, I find it’s a “heavy” book to get through. Unlike our previous choices where I could just sit down and read it for an hour (no matter if I was enjoying it or not), I found that with Oil! I could only read about 20 pages at the time.

I also wasn’t much into the all the description about oil fields and such related things. I really liked reading about Bunny and his perspective on things and I’m sure that the later part of the book must be more of that, I just unfortunately never got there. I do plan on slowly continuing to read it since it is a book I’ve been wanting to read for a long time and has been sitting on a bookshelf in my room for years.

How about you guys? How far did you get into the book? What did you like? What didn’t you? Doo you plan on continuing (or starting) to read Oil!?

What We’re Reading

Rural Wisconsin, 1909. In the bitter cold, Ralph Truitt, a successful businessman, stands alone on a train platform waiting for the woman who answered his newspaper advertisement for "a reliable wife." But when Catherine Land steps off the train from Chicago, she's not the "simple, honest woman" that Ralph is expecting. ...MORE?